Robert louis stevenson biography timelines

He was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh and was given the full name of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson.

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Robert's family moves to 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh where he attends school for the first time at Mr.

Henderson's Preparatory School.

Robert Louis Stevenson attended Edinburgh University (EU) at the age of seventeen where he then majored in civil engineering and went on to pursue the study in law.

Robert was Elected to Speculative Society which is and Scottish Enlightenment society dedicated to public speaking and literary composition. he attends his first meeting in march

Visits Paris returns to Edinburgh, publishes “Ordered South” in Macmillan’s Magazine, publishes “Victor Hugo’s Romances” in Cornhill Magazine.

Travels from London to Glasgow Sails from Greenock on the Devonia, bound for New York; on the journey finishes “The Story of a Lie” (1879